SC Cleared Contracts in West End of London

Security Check (SC) Clearance
Central London > West End of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West End of London with a requirement for SC Cleared qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing SC Cleared 8 0 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West End of London 15.09% - 17.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.10% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 13
10th Percentile £521 - £378
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £495
Median % change year-on-year - - +41.43%
75th Percentile £675 - £530
90th Percentile £750 - £548
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £541
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.00% -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.08 £20.82 £20.71
% change year-on-year +20.47% +0.53% -71.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West End of London

SC Cleared falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in West End of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 21 12 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West End of London 39.62% 23.08% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 21
10th Percentile £281 - £370
25th Percentile £330 - £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £252 £520
Median % change year-on-year +102.24% -51.50% +0.58%
75th Percentile £641 - £619
90th Percentile £668 - £638
Central London median daily rate £550 £533 £575
% change year-on-year +3.29% -7.39% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.04 - -
Median hourly rate £25.08 - -
75th Percentile £25.11 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £23.91 £51.50
% change year-on-year +21.59% -53.58% +18.39%

SC Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in West End of London

Job postings citing SC Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West End of London.

Job vacancy trend for SC Cleared in West End of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in West End of London.

Daily rate trend for SC Cleared in West End of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in West End of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SC Cleared in West End of London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SC Cleared in West End of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West End of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing SC Cleared in West End of London.

Hourly rate trend for SC Cleared in West End of London

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Contract Job Locations in West End of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SC Cleared within the West End of London region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster - 4 £650 - 1
Holborn - 1 £580 -
SC Cleared
Central London

SC Cleared
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West End of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (12.50%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (12.50%) AWS CodeCommit
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud9 IDE
2 1 (12.50%) Route 53
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
2 1 (12.50%) Textract
2 1 (12.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 1 (12.50%) Aerospace
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) AWS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Mac Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Security Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Cloud Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) NumPy
1 1 (12.50%) OpenCV
1 1 (12.50%) Pandas
1 1 (12.50%) pydantic
1 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
1 1 (12.50%) scikit-learn
1 1 (12.50%) SciPy
1 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Algorithms
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
3 1 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Vision
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) Data Munging
3 1 (12.50%) Data Science
3 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
3 1 (12.50%) Deep Learning
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) SABSA
3 1 (12.50%) Statistical Inference
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Bash
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (12.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle